It's hard to imagine a more expressive, searingly honest and comprehensively funny comic than Maria Bamford. After a year which saw her series and new special on Netflix propel her finally to the earning that befits her talent, Maria reflects on how money, property and prestige don't solve anything, what it's like to be an ex-underdog, and whether it's possible to make a not for profit TV show. We also cover the relationship between her bipolar and her day to day happiness, and ask how you function when "weakness is the brand"...

A lager-sodden “not deliberately bad” poet, Tim Key is responsible for some of the most startlingly theatrical fringe comedy of the last ten years.
From his outrageous origin as a college-troupe cuckoo, to his frustrations at the culling of his sketch group “Cowards”; through fringe stardom to his big screen success alongside Alan Partridge, we trace Tim’s emergence as one of the most compelling voices of contemporary British comedy.

Star of the brain-smashingly surreal sketch show “Anna and Katy”, and Daisy in “Not Going Out”, Katy Wix is an actress with an exceptional comic mind.
We talk about the roots of creativity, the fear of daydreaming, and her new book, “The Oberon Book Of Comic Monologues For Women”.

Alfie Brown is variously known as the future of British comedy, the enfant terrible of the comedy circuit, and/or a jumped-up posh kid rebelling against anything that’ll have him.
Frustratingly, he’s almost certainly the former, as he refines his act to include less maddening naivety and more genuinely breath-taking comic verve. Can he convince you he’s not just some West London it-boy wanker? I think he can…

Mickey “D” Dwyer is an outrageously charismatic comic, with an almost mutant ability to win over the toughest room, from the UK to his native Australia and back.
Retaining the dynamism, skills and stories from his previous life as a hardcore festival headcase, he’s now a clean-living, marathon-running family man - but does he ever miss the bad old days?

David McSavage is one of Stu’s all-time favourite performers, with an incredibly elastic, glib and scathing sense of humour. In between slinging barbs at his homeland and his fellow comics, he gives us a glimpse of a man perpetually at war with his inner demons and his need to be appreciated by his father.
We also discuss his TV series “The Savage Eye”, his often breathtakingly rude street-show, and the glee to be found in attacking the innocent…

Fiercely intelligent political and socio-political comic, friend of the show and self-confessed “great laugh”, Nish Kumar is at the height of his powers.
We discuss the self and the presentational self, his family, tremendous ego and the unquenchable analytical thirst that powers his comedy and his life. But is he really only able to face his problems in front of strangers?